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The true cost of Egypt's Internet shutdown

With an abruptness reminiscent of its decision to sever its connection with the world, Egypt restored Internet access on Wednesday amidst continuing unrest directed against beleaguered President

Largest DDoS attack in 2010 crossed 100Gbps barrier

The ferocity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has been increasing over the years, with one attack finally breaking 100Gbps in 2010. This finding comes from Arbor Networks in its most

Hackers use Twitter to control botnets

Popular social networking site Twitter is being used to control botnets, according to Jose Nazario, who is a Senior Security Researcher from Arbor Networks. Botnets are computers infected with

IBM: Conficker affects 4 percent of PCs

IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division did a scan of some 2 million computers in the last 24 hours and came up with a startling figure: The Conficker worm was spotted on some 4 percent of the

Giant scale DDoS tops 40 Gbps

Arbor Networks has released the fourth edition of its Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report , which summarizes the responses of 70 lead security engineers worldwide. The report indicates that the

First comprehensive survey of IPv6 reveals negligible usage

In the most comprehensive study of actual IPv6 usage to date, Arbor Networks worked with the University of Michigan and close to 100 Internet providers in order to measure actual inter-domain IPv6